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10 posted on 12/13/2016 2:59:55 PM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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I’ve heard that the Swordfish was so slow that the German antiaircraft guns couldn’t get a bead on them. Still, it must have been a sweat beading, butt puckering experience to lay a torpedo in like that.


33 posted on 12/13/2016 5:26:04 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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